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In the past year, the National Institute of Corrections has sponsored
research to assess private sector involvement in prison services and
22
operations. Survey findings indicate health (and mental health) care and
residential community services are those most often purchased under contract by
adult corrections agencies. Reduced staffing needs, better quality service and
more cost-efficent operation were the motives most often reported from those
correctional agencies contracting for services. It was the expectation of
correctional administrators surveyed that contracted services will expand, that
whole institutions will be run privately (Kentucky has already issued a Request
for Proposal for a 200-bed minimum security facility), that contracts will become
standardized, that the American Corrections Association will support private
sector involvement and that most growth will be in specialized areas. For
example, a recent issue of Corrections Today contained articles concerning
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contracted health care ' and a variety of services provided by contract in
Canada.
Criminal Justice Information Systems Cooperation. The Arrest Disposition
Reporting System (ADRS) of the Oklahoma District Attorneys is maintained by a
staff at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. District Attorneys' offices
report charges filed, hearings held and case dispositions. The participation of
DAs statewide is the highest it has been since the program was automated in 1977.
Although not well-known in the state, this program is recognized as exemplary by
the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Criminal Justice Statistics
Association. In a current cooperative program with the Oklahoma Department of
Corrections, ADRS supplies the Department with a monthly computer tape of cases
filed in the state. At ODOC, this list is compared by computer with a roster of
all persons under probation or parole supervision in the Department. Any matches
are distributed to the appropriate Probation and Parole District office so that
the cases may be investigated and the appropriate actions taken. Previously, if
a client from one county committed an offense in another, it was often only by
luck or long hours of court records searching that the supervising officer would
learn of the incident. Since the inception of this inter-agency cooperative
effort in Spring 1984, numerous probationers and parolees have had revocation
proceedings initiated for previously undetected violations. The importance of
such cooperation to the public safety and the effective operation of the Department of Corrections will be made more manifest in the near future when the
program will be expanded to help monitor House Arrest participants.

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In the past year, the National Institute of Corrections has sponsored
research to assess private sector involvement in prison services and
22
operations. Survey findings indicate health (and mental health) care and
residential community services are those most often purchased under contract by
adult corrections agencies. Reduced staffing needs, better quality service and
more cost-efficent operation were the motives most often reported from those
correctional agencies contracting for services. It was the expectation of
correctional administrators surveyed that contracted services will expand, that
whole institutions will be run privately (Kentucky has already issued a Request
for Proposal for a 200-bed minimum security facility), that contracts will become
standardized, that the American Corrections Association will support private
sector involvement and that most growth will be in specialized areas. For
example, a recent issue of Corrections Today contained articles concerning
23
contracted health care ' and a variety of services provided by contract in
Canada.
Criminal Justice Information Systems Cooperation. The Arrest Disposition
Reporting System (ADRS) of the Oklahoma District Attorneys is maintained by a
staff at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. District Attorneys' offices
report charges filed, hearings held and case dispositions. The participation of
DAs statewide is the highest it has been since the program was automated in 1977.
Although not well-known in the state, this program is recognized as exemplary by
the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Criminal Justice Statistics
Association. In a current cooperative program with the Oklahoma Department of
Corrections, ADRS supplies the Department with a monthly computer tape of cases
filed in the state. At ODOC, this list is compared by computer with a roster of
all persons under probation or parole supervision in the Department. Any matches
are distributed to the appropriate Probation and Parole District office so that
the cases may be investigated and the appropriate actions taken. Previously, if
a client from one county committed an offense in another, it was often only by
luck or long hours of court records searching that the supervising officer would
learn of the incident. Since the inception of this inter-agency cooperative
effort in Spring 1984, numerous probationers and parolees have had revocation
proceedings initiated for previously undetected violations. The importance of
such cooperation to the public safety and the effective operation of the Department of Corrections will be made more manifest in the near future when the
program will be expanded to help monitor House Arrest participants.